> Is this a GNOME architecture issue?

Yes. And always has been since like forever ago. I'm all for choice and diversity, but I've personally never understood all the love and excitement and attention that GNOME has gotten ever since Canonical got behind it and dropped Unity.

I'm certainly not it's target audience - running XFCE, LXDE/LXQT, and i3/Sway over the years - but it really gobsmacks me to hear the cheerleading over what seem like really basic fixes, like "now the single-threaded shell crashes to login less often! Horray!"